Traci Hercher is a filmmaker based in New York City whose work explores systems of power and belief through portraiture.
Her work has been supported by a MacDowell Fellowship, residencies at MASS MoCA, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and NARS Foundation, as well as Lightpress Grants in both 2024 and 2021. Her films have screened internationally at festivals and venues including The DocYard, Walker Art Center, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Art Center, Roman Susan Gallery, Teros Gallery, Experiments in Cinema, Process Festival, Revolutions per Minute Festival, AcreTV.org, Artists’ Television Access, The Nightingale, and Poetics and Politics Documentary Research Symposium at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her short film Diana won the Non-fiction Shorts Prize from Northampton Film Festival in 2018. In 2024, her short film-in-progress, Wide in the Sun, screened at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York as part of their Open Session programming. She served as a Juror in the Best Feature Competition for the IDA Documentary Awards in 2023.
She is also an educator and has taught at New York Film Academy, Binghamton University, and the University of Iowa.